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Loan Supply Shocks During the Financial Crisis : Evidence for the Euro Area
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershaeuser, Timo - 2021
This paper employs a panel vector autoregressive model for the member countries of the Euro Area to explore the role of banks during the slump of the real economy that followed the financial crisis. In particular, we seek to quantify the macroeconomic effects of adverse loan supply shocks, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316038
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Fiscal Policies and Business Cycles in an Enlarged Euro Area
Staehr, Karsten - 2008
This paper compares the cyclical properties of fiscal policies across the 12 original eurozone countries and the future members from Central and Eastern Europe. For the sample period 1995-2005, the fiscal balance exhibits less inertia and is more counter-cyclical in Central and Eastern European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773620
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Cross-Border Effects of Fiscal Consolidations : Estimates Based on Narrative Records
Hebous, Shafik; Zimmermann, Tom - 2021
We estimate cross-border spillover effects of fiscal consolidation episodes on output, bilateral trade flows, interest rate, and the exchange rate, employing the new IMF action-based fiscal consolidation data. Results indicate a negative effect of foreign fiscal consolidation policies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315746
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Estimating the Effects of Coordinated Fiscal Actions in the Euro Area
Hebous, Shafik - 2012
We estimate spillover effects of a fiscal shock in one member country in the euro area on outputs of the rest of the … members, using a Global Vector Autoregression (GVAR) model. We compare the effects of a domestic fiscal shock with those of a … similar size area-wide shock expressed as a weighted average of the fiscal shocks across all member countries. According to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101197
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The EU Budget Dispute - A Blessing in Disguise?
Schneider, Ondrej - 2007
This paper analyses the European budget and the position of the ten new member states. We argue that the EU budget should be reconsidered, as the Union has expanded to 27 member states and has become more heterogeneous. The budget priorities must be re-oriented towards potentially productive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776902
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The Positive Border Effect of EU Integration
Brakman, Steven - 2011
Distance related variables typically vary in a cross-section dimension but less so in a time dimension across cities, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration shocks that are informative of the consequences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130414
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The Price Puzzle Revisited : Can the Cost Channel Explain a Rise in Inflation after a Monetary Policy Shock?
Henzel, Steffen - 2013
This paper explores whether the cost channel solves the price puzzle. We set-up a New Keynesian DSGE model and estimate it for the euro area by adopting a minimum distance approach. Our findings suggest that - under certain parameter restrictions which are not rejected by the data - the cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753889
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The Impact of Market Regulations on Intra-European Real Exchange Rates
Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès - 2013
and employment protection tend to inflate the real exchange rate. We then carry out an econometric estimation for European … evolution of product market regulations and employment protection across countries play a very significant role in real exchange …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087275
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The European Central Bank's QE : A New Hope
Wieladek, Tomasz - 2016
We examine the impact of the ECB's QE on Euro Area real GDP and core CPI with a Bayesian VAR, estimated on monthly data from 2012M6 to 2016M4. We assess the total impact via a counter-factual exercise, country-by-country and through alternative transmission channels. QE announcement shocks are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986934
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What Should Fiscal Councils Do?
Calmfors, Lars - 2011
The paper analyses theoretically what role fiscal councils could play and surveys empirically the activities of existing councils. Case studies of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council and the UK Office for Budget Responsibility are done. It is concluded that fiscal councils should be advisory,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128042